Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:08:39 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Quieten softlockup detector on virtualised kernels |
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:58:38 +1100 Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 14:34 +1100, Cyril Bur wrote: > > When the hypervisor pauses a virtualised kernel the kernel will observe a jump > > in timebase, this can cause spurious messages from the softlockup detector. > > > > Whilst these messages are harmless, they are accompanied with a stack trace > > which causes undue concern and more problematically the stack trace in the > > guest has nothing to do with the observed problem and can only be misleading. > > > > Futhermore, on POWER8 this is completely avoidable with the introduction of > > the Virtual Time Base (VTB) register. > >
(Top-posting repaired. Please don't).
> Could you please pick these patches up through your tree?
I shall. There were quite a few review comments last time and I *think* they've been addressed(?). I'll cc the involved parties on the commits - please check?
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